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Ebays paypal. amazon saying that they are now going to get involved in processing subscription payments for smaller companies here begin they sit as a middleman in the transactions taking place for the companies, being able to complete the payment end of that could be very interesting for their profit model. back to you. >> well have to wait and see. this caught our eye that microsoft is refocussing xbox 1 on gaming so back to the bread and butter. >> fascinating, isnt it? you can watch youtube ...

>> how was it that this tiny country came to become the middleman of sorts? how was it that qatar decided to help broker this deal? >> in some ways, qatar has positioned itself very much in between the united states on the one hand and the kind of rising tide of islamists on the other hand. its very easy in qatar and its been the treasury department and state department have documented this for years to raise money for jihadist organizations including al qaeda. as recently as december, a very pr...

Fascinating, new details emerging about the release of the u.s. army captive, bowe bergdahl. the tense meeting saturday between u.s. special forces and the taliban took a year to put together though it went off without a hitch no one on the ground was sure what would happen. americans took off as soon as they had bergdahl in the military helicopter. lets bring in our foreign affairs reporter, shes joining our national security correspondent jim sciutto and "time" magazines washington bureau chie...

Parking spot. >> alicia seems to be spreading the word for her boyfriend, brad, while hes in jail. >> whats up, man? how you doing? im chris. >> who are you? >> she sends this guy a friend of brads. >> todd is here with five vehicles one a $230,000 bentley. >> i got them all here believe it or not. >> all of them? >> i actually got them [ bleep ] here. a nightmare. >> todd explains hes the middleman, not the thief. >> i coordinate it, man. i coordinate. >> the actual thief, he says, waiting outs...

That? >> that wasnt my money. >> so when you take your vig off of it and give it to the thief basically. >> basically there was only a couple of times i had my hands on the money first. for the most part -- wow. >> how did you even know to go to the store front to begin with? how did you find out about it? worth of mouth? >> you see what im saying. how did you even know to go there? >> a friend of mine. >> a friend of yours. >> not even a friend. >> just a guy you knew. >> a guy i just met. >> h...

Elbert humphries. a rich oil man. in the 1920s, a.e. humphries made the oil deal of a lifetime. he sold more than 300 million barrels of oil to a company that didnt really exist. and by using that fake company and this huge oil deal, he started the ball rolling on what was and remains one of the greatest american political scandals of all time those 300 million barrels of oil, he sold them to a whole bunch of oil executives. executives of other oil companies, for $1.50 a barrel. those oil execut...

Marijuana is legal in colorado, it was just a matter of time. the state is getting its first pot vending machine. it will dispense medical marijuana and snacks laced with pot. it still needs approval and will be in stores licensed to sell marijuana but it could eliminate problems before they occur. >> we are looking for machines to easily track all of this inventory. well eliminate the middleman. the inventory can go directly from the wholesaler to courier to our bud tender, right into the machi...

>> flight 370 was delayed mthen missing then feared crashed. this plane had been hijacked. our chief intelligence correspondence has been tracking that story from washington. >> within hours of the disappearance investigators focus on two passengers who use stolen passports aboard flight 370. the men purchased the tickets t through an iranian middleman. >> intelligence officials emphasize while the men profiles run through multiple data bases no positives were found. it was later determined one ...

Terrorism. that doesnt mean they arent checking out every possible lead. this is one thing they need to check out. you have this iranian man buying these tickets in cash last minute one-way ticket. but what im told this is consistent with a human smuggling operation, particularly using a middleman like this and someone who has done this kind of work a number of times before. he had a relationship with that travel agent and he has done that before. that is a working theory as to the explanation o...

Evaporates. >> there was no may day call, there was no messages back from the plane. there was no hijack squawk on the transponder. >> mary ski yav vo and other experts agree that something catastrophic happened. two days before the flight, an iranian middleman buys one way tickets. two men use the tickets. they give their fingerprints on the kuala lumpurs airport and they are caught on camera. >> we have -- look at the footage of the video and the photograph. it is confirmed now that they are n...